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61Rational egoism and animal rightsEnvironmental Ethics 3 (2): 167-171. 1981.Jan Narveson has suggested that rational egoism might provide a defensible moral perspective that would put animals out of the reach of morality without denying that they are capable of suffering. I argue that rational egoism provides a principled indifference to the fate of animals at high cost: the possibility of principled indifference to the fate of “marginal humans.”
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61Loving NatureJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (4): 485-495. 2018.Drawing inspiration from Iris Murdoch, I develop a systematic account of love that countenances love beyond persons. I then show how this account applies to nature, and explain why loving nature matters.
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61Jack, Jill, and Jane in a Perfect Moral StormPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 3 (1). 2013.download
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59On Aims and Methods of Cognitive EthologyPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992 110-124. 1992.In 1963 Niko Tinbergen published a paper, "On Aims and Methods of Ethology," dedicated to his friend Konrad Lorenz. Here Tinbergen defines ethology as "the biological study of behavior," and seeks to demonstrate "the close affinity between Ethology and the rest of Biology." Tinbergen identifies four major areas of ethology: causation, survival value, evolution, and ontogeny. Our goal is to attempt for cognitive ethology what Tinbergen succeeded in doing for ethology: to clarify its aims and meth…Read more
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57Klimawandel und globale Gerechtigkeit: Neues Problem, altes Paradigma?In Angela Kallhoff (ed.), Klimagerechtigkeit Und Klimaethik, De Gruyter. pp. 23-38. 2015.
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56Review of K. S. Shrader-Frechette: Method in ecology: strategies for conservation (review)Ethics 106 (2): 477-479. 1996.
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51Robert A. Hinde, Why Good is Good: The Sources of Morality , pp. xiv + 241Utilitas 18 (2): 196. 2006.
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49The Rights of Animals and the Demands of NatureEnvironmental Values 17 (2). 2008.This paper discusses two central themes of the work of Alan Holland: the relations between the natural and the normative and how our duties regarding animals cohere with our obligations to respect nature. I explicate and defend an anti-speciesist argument that entails strong moral demands on how we should live and what we should eat. I conclude by discussing the implications of anti-speciesism for rewilding and reintroduction programmes
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48Ecosystem Health: Some Preventive MedicineEnvironmental Values 4 (4). 1995.Some ecologists, philosophers, and policy analysts believe that ecosystem health can be defined in a rigorous way and employed as a management goal in environmental policy. The idea of ecosystem health may have something to recommend it as part of a rhetorical strategy, but I am dubious about its utility as a technical term in environmental policy. I develop several objections to this latest version of scientism in environmental policy, and conclude that our environmental problems fundamentally …Read more
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48From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do. Centered in philosophy, the volume also treats the scientific, historical, economic, and pol…Read more
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47Book Review:Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism. Michael Slote (review)Ethics 98 (1): 168-. 1987.
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43Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other AnimalsPhilosophical Review 130 (2): 315-319. 2021.
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43Global Environmental JusticeRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 36 199-210. 1994.Philosophers, like generals, tend to fight the last war. While activists and policy-makers are in the trenches fighting the problems of today, intellectuals are typically studying the problems of yesterday. There are some good reasons for this. It is more difficult to assess and interpret present events than those which are behind us. Time is needed for reflection and to gather reliable information about what has occurred. The desire to understand leads to a style of life that is primarily conte…Read more
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34Review of Michael Slote: Common-sense morality and consequentialism (review)Ethics 98 (1): 168-172. 1987.
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33The importance of being conceptualJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 45 (2): 117-123. 1986.
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32Book reviews (review)Philosophical Psychology 8 (4): 389-431. 1995.Speaking: from Intention to Articulation Willem J. M. Levelt, 1989 (1993 paperback) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press ISBN: 0–262–12137–9(hb), 0–262–62089–8(pb)Rules for Reasoning Richard E. Nisbett (Ed.), 1993 Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ISBN: 0–8058–1256–3(hb), 0–8085–1257–1 (pb)Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science Alvin I. Goldman, 1993 Cambridge, MA, MIT Press ISBN: 0–262–07153–3(hb), 0–262–57100–5(pb)Language Comprehension in Ape and Child, Monographs of the Society for Resear…Read more
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30Afterward: Ethics and the study of animal cognitionIn Colin Allen & D. Jamison (eds.), Readings in Animal Cognition, Mit Press. pp. 359--71. 1996.
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29Whither environmental philosophy?Ethics and the Environment 12 (2): 125-127. 2007.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ethics & the Environment 12.2 (2007) 125-127MuseSearchJournalsThis JournalContents[Access article in PDF]Whither Environmental Philosophy?Dale JamiesonBy most reasonable standards, environmental philosophy has been an enormous success since its beginnings in the 1970s. Courses in the subject are now taught around the world, there are many opportunities for publishing, there are two dedicated graduate programs, and there are even some…Read more
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29Language, mind, and art: essays in appreciation and analysis in honor of Paul Ziff (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1994.This volume is a collection of essays in appreciation, analysis and honor of Paul Ziff, one of the leading American philosophers of the post-World War II period. The essays address questions that loomed large in Ziff's own work. Essays by Zeno Vendler, Jay Rosenberg, and Tom Patton address topics in philosophy of language: understanding, misunderstanding, rules, regularities, and proper names. Michael Resnik examines the nature of numbers, Rita Nolan addresses `mutant predicates', and Peter Alex…Read more
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28Great Apes and the Human Resistance to equalityIn Peter Singer & Paola Cavalieri (eds.), The Great Ape Project, St. Martin's Griffin. pp. 223--229. 1993.
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Animal Studies Initiative, Environmental Studies ProgramOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)